Fundamentally we agree, but there is the possibility they run more amok than they have done.Just to be clear, I agree that the elderly, vulnerable and those who care for both should be at the top of any list to be vaccinated. But (to my knowledge) they've all already been offered the vaccine. At the point when we're vaccinating the healthy, low-risk population I think it makes more sense to drive vaccinations towards people who have high(er)-risk lifestyles (e.g. students, factory workers, high-density households) where the virus will spread more easily.
I cohabit with my fiance in a 3-bed semi with a nice big garden and plenty of room, we both work from home in non-essential industries. It wouldn't make sense for me to be vaccinated before a student living in a hall with 20 other people sharing a kitchen.
And they're already running amok IMO. I don't know a single person aged between 18-25 who's actually adhering to any of the rules. Withholding the vaccine as a preventative to running amok simply hasn't worked.
There’s been a number of own goals in mainland Europe, just like we scored a few ourselves during the first couple of waves. The Germans fooked up by having a laissez faire approach to who BioNtech partnered with. This has (reportedly) been a factor contributing to supply problems in the EU.Thank God that Oxford were steered towards AZ. The EU would have had us totally over a barrel and in-hoc to a German pharma company if they hadn't.
That was the purpose of the Vaccine manufacturing plant that the UK are building in Oxford. To provide pandemic manufacturing facilities for pharma companies that can be used during a pandemic. Great idea in 2018 but sadly it won't be up and running till November 2021 even though delivery has been brought forward two years.I think the supply will come on stream soon but all the talk about up-front manufacturing at risk was a load of nonsense and not enough national preparation for vaccine production has been done.
Ideologically the West doesn't buy into state intervention so they left it to private companies, and of course, they did nothing. So after the vaccines were authorised there was little infrastructure in place despite the whole world waiting desperately for months for vaccine.
No I think you're right For example, Alpine ski resorts should have been locked down in mid Feb and skiers quarantined. That was the biggest spread event in Europe by far.There’s been a number of own goals in mainland Europe, just like we scored a few ourselves during the first couple of waves. The Germans fooked up by having a laissez faire approach to who BioNtech partnered with. This has (reportedly) been a factor contributing to supply problems in the EU.
I think the lack of support for Northern Italy during the first weeks / months of the pandemic (in Europe) has been the EU’s biggest failing to date. That’s just my opinion of course:
That was the purpose of the Vaccine manufacturing plant that the UK are building in Oxford. To provide pandemic manufacturing facilities for pharma companies that can be used during a pandemic. Great idea in 2018 but sadly it won't be up and running till November 2021 even though delivery has been brought forward two years.
FFSYep it seems it's absolutely rife, and even people actually being happy that they have bent the rules!!
I will really be very angry if these twats get to go abroad and do stuff before the ones who have to wait to get done - the age range that who arguably have worked through the most over the past year.
I am really fucking angry about this issue, it's disgraceful.
We took advice from Taiwan but refused to have a quarantine app for folks with phones or to have tagging for those that didn't. A case where the right to be a dick trumped peoples right to life - which should not have happened during a pandemic.UK £37Billion, privatised track and trace shown to be a waste of money in the main. Part of the problem has been people unwilling or unable to self isolate as discussed previously on here.
And my vote.Unable maybe partially due to loss of wages etc whereas unwilling is due to selfishness or is it the other way around. Just look at the scenes last couple of days from Platt Fields and Castlefields last night. Unbelievable the actions of these people. Just what is going on in their heads. Probably nothing and that’s the problem. Should water cannon the lot using an ink that stay on skin for four weeks then everyone will know what twats we have to share oxygen with. Bit radical I know but I reckon it might make people think twice.